{"id":148254,"date":"2026-02-08T19:48:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T19:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/148254\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T19:48:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T19:48:06","slug":"good-samaritan-pulls-driver-from-sinking-vehicle-in-stuart-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/148254\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Samaritan pulls driver from sinking vehicle in Stuart pond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STUART, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A driver is hospitalized with serious injuries after their car veered into a Stuart pond Friday, leading to a daring water rescue by a quick-thinking bystander.<\/p>\n<p>Just after 8 a.m. Friday morning, Martin County Fire Rescue units say they responded to the scene of a vehicle submerged in a pond near Stuart.<\/p>\n<p>But before divers could even hit the surface, a local hero had reportedly already sprung into action. A bystander, witnessing the crash, jumped into the pond and managed to pull the driver from the sinking car.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/victim-uses-phone-gps-to-find-wpb-man-who-allegedly-robbed-struck-teen-with-car-jupiter-florida-armed-robbery-teen-gunpoint-carjacking-dragged-findmy-tracking-volkswagen-palmbeach-sheriff-arrest-firearm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Victim uses phone GPS to find WPB man who allegedly robbed, struck teen with car<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Paramedics quickly took over, treating the victim at the water&#8217;s edge before transporting them to a local trauma center with serious injuries, according to MCFR post to Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>While the driver was safely on the bank, MCFR divers braved the chilly water to conduct a secondary sweep, confirming that no one else was trapped inside the submerged vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Officials praised the quick-thinking citizen who didn\u2019t hesitate to help, noting that the outcome could have been much worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STUART, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A driver is hospitalized with serious injuries after their car veered into a Stuart&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-148254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}